For the first time in the history of India, an Amendment Bill got the green signal within 72 hours – the Bill being the one on 10 per cent reservation to the General category.
Modi’s plan was to drop a bomb in the very beginning of the mega election year. So, Modi teamed up with his few trusted and after all the preparations, a meeting of the Union Cabinet was called on the last day of 2018. But the agenda of the meeting was not given in writing to anyone. Even Thawar Chand Gehlot, who were to present this Amendment Bill in the House, had no information about this. Cabinet Secretary PK Sinha briefed the Bill point-by-point.
Prior to this, the PM also held a secret meetings twice with important officials of Finance and Law Ministry. Only Arun Jaitley and Amit Shah were briefed about this prior hand, since both these leaders had to speak in the House on this.